Paris is known for climate change.  Its winters, when it drizzles; its summers, when it sizzles; and its Climate Accords that, thanks to in good measure to American leadership, all the nations of the world signed onto except Syria and Nicaragua . . . the latter because they felt it was too weak.  As described […]

In the current New York:

“Just Wait.  Watergate didn’t become Watergate overnight, either.”

The differences of course are many.  For starters, Nixon actually wanted the job, won it by the largest margin in history, and was both qualified and prepared to fill it — a brilliant student of history who’d been, among other things, […]

THE POLITICAL CRIME OF THE CENTURY

Just 26% of Republicans believe that Russia interfered in the Presidential election.  That compares with 78% of Democrats, 53% of independents — and 100% of America’s 17 intelligence agencies.

Think what that says about Putin’s and Trump’s ability to manipulate American public opinion.

According to the lengthy Washington […]

Now that I’m a private citizen, I feel even freer than usual to say what I think:

To my donor who wrote that he was “dispirited,” I suggested “disappointed” is the better way to feel.  It was disappointing not to win — was it ever! — but (read on), that disappointment should fuel our resolve, not slow […]

In the Brave New World department — if we can summon the wisdom not to destroy each other first — look at this (thanks, Paul!).

It doesn’t seem to be from the Onion.  And if one of you does show me that it’s nuts and not really going to happen by 2020, do you […]

This tells it all in under three minutes: Claire McCaskill on the “process” being used by “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to craft America’s health care system.  And how it differs from the process when Obamacare — flawed though it is — passed the Senate.

Watch.

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